American Journal of Infection Control

To describe daily environmental cleaning and disinfection practices and their associations with cleaning rates while exploring contextual factors experienced by healthcare workers involved in the cleaning process.

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) have been progressively rising over the last few decades, owing in part to the emergence of drug and disinfectant resistant bacterial strains, which are thought to have resulted from the misuse of antibiotics and

Background: Current information is limited on the incidence, risk factors, and consequences of extended-spectrum cephalosporin resistant Enterobacteriaceae (ESCRE) carriage in patients undergoing therapy for newly-diagnosed acute leukemia.Methods: We

Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are one of the leading causes of patient morbidity and mortality worldwide.1 The importance of health care environmental hygiene (HEH) for patient safety is becoming increasingly recognized in the literature,2

Covid-19 has spread worldwide within a few months and resulted in millions of deaths globally. [1,2] As previously observed for the 2009 influenza pandemic (Flu09pdm), a novel invasive respiratory virus in a naïve population, initial epidemic waves

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Delta variant spread rapidly worldwide and was reported in 185 countries by September 2021.1 Although vaccination is the cornerstone of protection against SARS-CoV-2, breakthrough

Over 2.8 million people are infected with, and 35,000 people die from antibiotic-resistant bacteria annually in the United States.1 Injudicious outpatient use of antibiotics contributes to the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and reduced

. Industrial hygienists (IH) in the oil and gas business instituted an extraordinary number of safety protocols to limit spread of SARS-CoV-2 onto offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. We used genomic surveillance to provide actionable

We would like to thank Mukhida et. al. for their letter to the editor and for their message that “The medical fraternity can't be imagined without a white coat”. While it is true that white coats have traditionally been a universal symbol of medical

– Hospital water is often an overlooked yet preventable source of hospital-acquired infections. CDC recommends annual cleaning of water reservoirs in healthcare settings. In our tertiary care hospital, periodic disinfection and microbiological